The global interaction behavior in message-based systems can be specified as a finite-state machine defining acceptable sequences of messages exchanged by a group of peers. Realiz...
When releasing microdata for research purposes, one needs to preserve the privacy of respondents while maximizing data utility. An approach that has been studied extensively in re...
Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...
Abstract. The maximum diversity problem (MDP) consists in identifying, in a population, a subset of elements, characterized by a set of attributes, that present the most diverse ch...
L. F. Santos, Marcos Henrique Ribeiro, Alexandre P...
The GoogleTM API enables software agents to query and use search results from the large collections of data available via the ever-popular Google search engine. Web searches using...